Halloween

Sreekumar K

I went for Halloween

Painted all in green

My skin won’t show green

So, first a putty layer of white

And then, green went over it.

 

Had I been white

I could’ve greened straight

Without a white lie in between

Same thing with the tongues I use

I speak German, comprehend Hebrew

Both came to me through English

 

I went to India to pick up Sanskrit

Stopped over at the London Airport

Why do white and the whites

Have to be corridors to go anywhere?

 

Now I am reading the Manifesto in German

The Bible in Hebrew, the Upanishads in Sanskrit

I just don’t trust the deserted corridors

Painted in glowing white,

It so dark in there.

I always run into myself

 

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